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Money Is Power, And Rare Are The Heads That Can Withstand The Possession Of Great Power.

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Everything In This World Depends Upon Will.

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Demagogues And Agitators Are Very Unpleasant, They Are Incidental To A Free And Constitutional Country, And You Must Put Up With These Inconveniences Or Do Without Many Important Advantages.

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The World Is Governed By Very Different Personages From What Is Imagined By Those Who Are Not Behind The Scenes.

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I Do Not Believe Such A Quality As Chance Exists. Every Incident That Happens Must Be A Link In A Chain.

Eloquence Is The Child Of Knowledge. When A Mind Is Full, Like A Wholesome River, It Is Also Clear.

That Doctrine Of Peace At Any Price Has Done More Mischief Than Any I Can Well Recall That Have Been Afloat In This Country. It Has Occasioned More Wars Than Any Of The Most Ruthless Conquerors. It Has Disturbed And Nearly Destroyed That Political Equilibrium So Necessary To The Liberties And The Welfare Of The World.

Nowadays, Manners Are Easy And Life Is Hard.

The Indulgence In Grief Is A Blunder.

I Have Always Thought That Every Woman Should Marry, And No Man.

A Majority Is Always Better Than The Best Repartee.

To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection: It Is Plunder.

Great Services Are Not Canceled By One Act Or By One Single Error.

A Nation, As An Individual, Has Duties To Fulfill Appointed By God And His Moral Law.

Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

Meditation Is Culture.

How Very Seldom Do You Encounter In The World A Man Of Great Abilities, Acquirements, Experience, Who Will Unmask His Mind, Unbutton His Brains, And Pour Forth In Careless And Picturesque Phrase All The Results Of His Studies And Observation; His Knowledge Of Men, Books, And Nature. On The Contrary, If A Man Has By Any Chance An Original Idea, He Hoards It As If It Were Old Gold; And Rather Avoids The Subject With Which He Is Most Conversant, From Fear That You May Appropriate His Best Thoughts.

There Are Few Positions Less Inspiriting Than Those Of A Discomfited Party.

There Is Magic In The Memory Of Schoolboy Friendships; It Softens The Heart, And Even Affects The Nervous System Of Those Who Have No Heart.

Why Should One Say That The Machine Does Not Live? It Breathes, For Its Breath Forms The Atmosphere Of Some Towns.

It Has Been Said That The People Of This Country Are Deeply Interested In The Humanitarian And Philanthropic Considerations Involved In [the Eastern Question]. All Must Appreciate Such Feelings. But I Am Mistaken If There Be Not A Yet Deeper Sentiment On The Part Of The People Of This Country, One With Which I Cannot Doubt Your Lordships Will Ever Sympathise, And That Is - The Determination To Maintain The Empire Of England.

Man Is Made To Create, From The Poet To The Potter.

My Idea Of An Agreeable Person Is A Person Who Agrees With Me.

Nurture Your Minds With Great Thoughts. To Believe In The Heroic Makes Heroes.

We Are All Born For Love. It Is The Principle Of Existence, And Its Only End.

Scientific, Like Spiritual Truth, Has Ever From The Beginning Been Descending From Heaven To Man.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy.

"as For That," Said Waldenshare, "sensible Men Are All Of The Same Religion." "pray, What Is That?" Inquired The Prince. "sensible Men Never Tell."

Jews Show So Near An Affinity To You... Where Is Your Christianity If You Do Not Believe In Their Judaism?

There Is No Index Of Character So Sure As The Voice.

We Live In An Age When To Be Young And To Be Indifferent Can Be No Longer Synonymous. We Must Prepare For The Coming Hour. The Claims Of The Future Are Represented By Suffering Millions; And The Youth Of A Nation Are The Trustees Of Posterity.

The English Nation Is Never So Great As In Adversity.

To Achieve What You Want, You Have To Be Stronger Than Those Around You

The Conduct Of Men Depends Upon Their Temperament, Not Upon A Bunch Of Musty Maxims.

Proverbs Were Anterior To Boots, And Formed The Wisdom Of The Vulgar, And In The Earliest Ages Were The Unwritten Laws Of Morality.

Ignorance Never Settles A Question.

Conservatism Discards Prescription, Shrinks From Principle, Disavows Progress; Having Rejected All Respect For Antiquity, It Offers No Redress For The Present, And Makes No Preparation For The Future.

Real Politics Are The Possession And Distribution Of Power.

Distribution Of Power

Variety Is The Mother Of Enjoyment.

Next To The Assumption Of Power Was The Responsibility Of Relinquishing It.

You Know Who The Critics Are? The Men Who Have Failed In Literature And Art.

Never Apologize For Showing Feeling. When You Do So, You Apologize For The Truth.

Nine-tenths Of All Existing Books Are Nonsense.

I Am The Blank Page Between The Old And The New Testament.

The Gondola Of London [a Hansom].

Almost Everything That Is Great Has Been Done By Youth.

I Do Not Like Giving Advice: It Is Incurring An Unnecessary Responsibility.

As Men Advance In Life, All Passions Resolve Themselves Into Money. Love, Ambition, Even Poetry, End In This.

The Disappointment Of Manhood Succeeds The Delusion Of Youth.

All My Successes Have Been Built On My Failures.

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A Realist Is A Man Who Insists On Making The Same Mistakes His Grandfather Did.

When A Man Fell Into His Anecdotage It Was A Sign For Him To Retire From The World.

Great Men Should Think Of Opportunity And Not Of Time. That Is The Excuse Of Feeble And Puzzled Spirits.

The British People, Being Subject To Fogs, Require Grave Statesmen.

There Is No Diplomacy Like Silence.

Debt Is A Prolific Mother Of Folly And Of Crime.

We Are Taught Words, Not Ideas.

Man Is A Being Born To Believe. And If No Church Comes Forward With Its Title-deeds Of Truth To Guide Him, He Will Find Altars And Idols In His Own Heart And His Own Imagination.

Circumstances Are Beyond Human Control, But Our Conduct Is In Our Own Power.

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To Supervise People, You Must Either Surpass Them In Their Accomplishments Or Despise Them.

Friendship Is The Gift Of The Gods, And The Most Precious Boon To Man.

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Silence Often Expresses 'more Powerfully Than Speech The Verdict And Judgment Of Society.

I See Before Me The Statue Of A Celebrated Minister, Who Said That Confidence Was A Plant Of Slow Growth. But I Believe, However Gradual May Be The Growth Of Confidence, That Of Credit Requires Still More Time To Arrive At Maturity.

Finality Is Not The Language Of Politics.

One Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

Here's To The Man Who Rode The Race, Who Took The Time, Who Kept The Time, And Who Did The Trick.

We Have Legalized Confiscation, Consecrated Sacrilege, And Condoned High Treason.

The Jews Are A Nervous People. Nineteen Centuries Of Christian Love Have Taken A Toll.

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Nobody Should Ever Look Anxious Except Those Who Have No Anxiety.

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Knowledge Must Be Gained By Ourselves. Mankind May Supply Us With Facts; But The Results, Even If They Agree With Previous Ones, Must Be The Work Of Our Own Minds.

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A Parsimony Of Words Prodigal Of Sense.

The Age Does Not Believe In Great Men, Because It Does Not Possess Any.

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Had It Not Been For You, I Should Have Remained What I Was When We First Met, A Prejudiced, Narrow-minded Being, With Contracted Sympathies And False Knowledge, Wasting My Life On Obsolete Trifles, And Utterly Insensible To The Privilege Of Living In This Wondrous Age Of Change And Progress.

That Youthful Fervor, Which Is Sometimes Called Enthusiasm, But Which Is A Heat Of Imagination Subsequently Discovered To Be Inconsistent With The Experience Of Actual Life.

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This Is The Third Time That, In The Course Of Six Years, During Which I Have Had The Lead Of The Opposition In The House Of Commons, I Have Stormed The Treasury Benches: Twice, Fruitlessly, The Third Time With A Tin Kettle To My Tail Which Rendered The Race Hopeless. You Cannot, Therefore, Be Surprised, That I Am A Little Wearied Of These Barren Victories, Which Like Alma, Inkerman, And Balaclava, May Be Glorious But Are Certainly Nothing More.

Rothschild Is The Lord And Master Of The Money Markets Of The World, And Of Course Virtually Lord And Master Of Everything Else. He Literally Held The Revenues Of Southern Italy In Pawn, And Monarchs And Ministers Of All Countries Courted His Advice And Were Guided By His Suggestions.

Coquettes Are, But Too Rare. It Is A Career That Requires Great Abilities, Infinite Pains, A Gay And Airy Spirit. 't Is The Coquette Who Provides All The Amusements,--suggests The Riding-party, Plans The Picnic, Gives And Guesses Charades, Acts Them. She Is The Stirring Element Amid The Heavy Congeries Of Social Atoms,--the Soul Of The House, The Salt Of The Banquet.

Wherever Is Found What Is Called A Paternal Government, There Is Found State Education. It Has Been Discovered That The Best Way To Insure Implicit Obedience Is To Commence Tyranny In The Nursery.

No Man Is Regular In His Attendance At The House Of Commons Until He Is Married.

The Services In Wartime Are Fit Only For Desperadoes, But In Peace Are Only Fit For Fools.

The Pursuit Of Science Leads Only To The Insoluble.

There Is No Act Of Treachery Or Meanness Of Which A Political Party Is Not Capable; For In Politics There Is No Honour.

If You're Not Very Clever You Should Be Conciliatory.

Something Unpleasant Is Coming When Men Are Anxious To Tell The Truth.

Beauty Can Inspire Miracles.

The Very Phrase 'foreign Affairs' Makes An Englishman Convinced That I Am About To Treat Of Subjects With Which He Has No Concern.

You Know, All Is Development. The Principle Is Perpetually Going On. First, There Was Nothing, Then There Was Something; Then-i Forget The Next-i Think There Were Shells, Then Fishes; Then We Came-let Me See-did We Come Next? Never Mind That; We Came At Last. And At The Next Change There Will Be Something Very Superior To Us-something With Wings. Ah! That's It: We Were Fishes, And I Believe We Shall Be Crows.

Departure Should Be Sudden.

Life Is To Short To Be Small.

The Most Powerful Men Are Not Public Men: A Public Man Is Responsible, And A Responsible Man Is A Slave. It Is Private Life That Governs The World.

It Is The Lot Of Man To Suffer; It Is Also His Fortune To Forget. Oblivion And Sorrow Share Our Being, As Darkness And Light Divide The Course Of Time.

No Conjunction Can Possibly Occur, However Fearful, However Tremendous It May Appear, From Which A Man By His Own Energy May Not Extricate Himself, As A Mariner By The Rattling Of His Cannon Can Dissipate The Impending Waterspout.

I Will Not Go Down To Posterity Talking Bad Grammar.

A Conservative Government Is An Organized Hypocrisy.

I Am Bound To Furnish My Antagonists With Arguments, But Not With Comprehension.

Despair Is The Conclusion Of Fools.

Experience Is The Child Of Thought, And Thought Is The Child Of Action.

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Upon The Education Of The People Of This Country The Fate Of This Country Depends.

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.

London Owes Everything To Its Press: It Owes As Much To Its Press As It Does To Its Being The Seat Of Government And The Law.

There Is No Waste Of Time In Life Like That Of Making Explanations.

Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

Desperation Is Sometimes As Powerful An Inspirer As Genius.

Our Domestic Affections Are The Most Salutary Basis Of All Good Government.

Most People Die With Their Music Still Locked Up Inside Them.

To Be Conscious That You Are Ignorant Of The Facts Is A Great Step To Knowledge.

Change Is Inevitable. Change Is Constant.

The Noble Lord Is The Rupert Of Debate.

Nothing In Life Is More Remarkable Than The Unnecessary Anxiety Which We Endure, And Generally Create Ourselves.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

The Affections Are The Children Of Ignorance; When The Horizon Of Our Experience Expands, And Models Multiply, Love And Admiration Imperceptibly Vanish.

Nature Is More Powerful Than Education; Time Will Develop Everything.

London; A Nation, Not A City.

Gentl, I Am A Party Man. I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible. I Look Upon Parliamentary Government As The Noblest Government In The World, And Certainly The One Most Suited To England.

The World Is Weary Of Statesmen Whom Democracy Has Degraded Into Politicians.

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Change Is As Inexorable As Time, Yet Nothing Meets With More Resistance.

Next To Knowing When To Seize An Opportunity, The Most Important Thing In Life Is To Know When To Forego An Advantage.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition.

At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.

I Do Not Understand How An Aristocracy Can Exist, Unless It Be Distinguished By Some Quality Which No Other Class Of The Community Possesses.

I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible.

No, It Is Better Not. She Will Only Ask Me To Take A Message To Albert.

A Sophistical Rhetorician, Inebriated With The Exuberance Of His Own Verbosity, And Gifted With An Egotistical Imagination That Can At All Times Command An Interminable And Inconsistent Series Of Arguments To Malign An Opponent And To Glorify Himself.

Happiness Is Only To Be Found In A Recurrence To The Principles Of Human Nature; And These Will Prompt Very Simple Measures.

Man Is Only Truly Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

Man Is Made To Adore And To Obey: But If You Will Not Command Him, If You Give Him Nothing To Worship, He Will Fashion His Own Divinities, And Find A Chieftain In His Own Passions.

Duty Cannot Exist Without Faith

Nature Has Given Us Two Ears But Only One Mouth.

A Man's Fate Is His Own Temper; And According To That Will Be His Opinion As To The Particular Manner In Which The Course Of Events Is Regulated. A Consistent Man Believes In Destiny, A Capricious Man In Chance.

Be Amusing: Never Tell Unkind Stories; Above All, Never Tell Long Ones.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics.

Mediocrity Can Talk, But It Is For Genius To Observe.

Expediency Is A Law Of Nature. The Camel Is A Wonderful Animal, But The Desert Made The Camel.

In All Church Discussions We Are Apt To Forget The Second Testament Is Avowedly Only A Supplement. Jesus Came To Complete The Law And The Prophets. Christianity Is Completed Judaism, Or It Is Nothing. Christianity Is Incomprehensible Without Judaism, As Judaism Is Incomplete Without Christianity.

The Girl Of The Period Sets Up To Be Natural, And Is Only Rude; Mistakes Insolence For Innocence; Says Everything That Comes First To Her Lips, And Thinks She Is Gay When She Is Only Giddy.

Is It What You Call Civilization That Makes England Flourish? Is It The Universal Development Of The Faculties Of Man That Has Rendered An Island, Almost Unknown To The Ancients, The Arbiter Of The World? Clearly Not. It Is The Inhabitants That Have Done This. It Is An Affair Of Race.... All Is Race, There Is No Other Truth.

It Shows You Exactly How A Star Is Formed; Nothing Else Can Be So Pretty! A Cluster Of Vapor, The Cream Of The Milky Way, A Sort Of Celestial Cheese, Churned Into Light.

Predominant Opinions Are Generally The Opinions Of The Generation That Is Vanishing.

To Do Nothing And Get Something, Formed A Boy's Ideal Of A Manly Career.

He Was Distinguished For Ignorance; For He Had Only One Idea, And That Was Wrong.

The Question Is This - Is Man An Ape Or An Angel? My Lord, I Am On The Side Of The Angels. I Repudiate With Indignation And Abhorrence These New Fanged Theories.

Literature Is An Avenue To Glory, Ever Open For Those Ingenious Men Who Are Deprived Of Honors Or Of Wealth.

The Difference Of Race Is One Of The Reasons Why I Fear War May Always Exist; Because Race Implies Difference, Difference Implies Superiority, And Superiority Leads To Predominance.

I Have A Great Confidence In The Revelations Which Holidays Bring Forth.

Great Confidence

When I Left The Dining Room After Sitting Next To Mr. Gladstone, I Thought He Was The Cleverest Man In England. But After Sitting Next To Mr. Disraeli, I Thought I Was The Cleverest Woman In England.

Doubt Is An Element Of Criticism, And The Tendency Of Criticism Is Necessarily Skeptical.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy. It Was Not Granted By Monarchs, It Was Not Gained For Us By Aristocracies; But It Sprang From The People, And, With An Immortal Instinct, It Has Always Worked For The People.

No Affection And A Great Brain, These Are The People To Command The World.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Fortune.

Increased Means And Increased Leisure Are The Two Civilizers Of Man.

The Originality Of A Subject Is In Its Treatment.

Consider Ireland.... You Have A Starving Population, An Absentee Aristocracy, And An Alien Church, And In Addition The Weakest Executive In The World. That Is The Irish Question.

The Egremonts Had Never Said Anything That Was Remembered, Or Done Anything That Could Be Recalled.

A Man May Speak Very Well In The House Of Commons, And Fail Very Completely In The House Of Lords. There Are Two Distinct Styles Requisite: I Intend, In The Course Of My Career, If I Have Time, To Give A Specimen Of Both.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

I Am Prepared For The Worst, But Hope For The Best.

A New Acquaintance Is Like A New Book. I Prefer It, Even If Bad, To A Classic.

The Care Of The Public Health Is The First Duty Of The Statesman.

The Best Way To Become Acquainted With A Subject Is To Write About It.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing. Tact Teaches You When To Be Silent. Inquirers Who Are Always Questioning Never Learn Anything.

Amusement To An Observing Mind Is Study.

Customs May Not Be As Wise As Laws, But They Are Always More Popular.

If A Man Be Gloomy Let Him Keep To Himself. No One Has The Right To Go Croaking About Society, Or What Is Worse, Looking As If He Stifled Grief.

You Must Originate, And You Must Sympathize; Yon Must Possess, At The Same Time, The Habit Of Communicating And The Habit Of Listening. The Union Is Rather Rare, But Irresistible.

Gentlemen, The Tory Party, Unless It Is A National Party, Is Nothing.

A Great City, Whose Image Dwells In The Memory Of Man, Is The Type Of Some Great Idea. Rome Represents Conquest; Faith Hovers Over The Towers Of Jerusalem; And Athens Embodies The Pre-eminent Quality Of The Antique World, Art.

Popular Privileges Are Consistent With A State Of Society In Which There Is Great Inequality Of Position. Democratic Rights, On The Contrary, Demand That There Should Be Equality Of Condition As The Fundamental Basis Of The Society They Regulate.

The Governments Of The Present Day Have To Deal Not Merely With Other Governments, With Emperors, Kings And Ministers, But Also With The Secret Societies Which Have Everywhere Their Unscrupulous Agents, And Can At The Last Moment Upset All The Governments' Plans.

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And It Is A Singular Truth That, Though A Man May Shake Off National Habits, Accent, Manner Of Thinking, Style Of Dress,--though He May Become Perfectly Identified With Another Nation, And Speak Its Language Well, Perhaps Better Than His Own,--yet Never Can He Succeed In Changing His Handwriting To A Foreign Style.

Nature Is Stronger Than Education.

England Is A Domestic Country. Here The Home Is Revered And The Hearth Sacred. The Nation Is Represented By A Family,--the Royal Family,--and If That Family Is Educated With A Sense Of Responsibility And A Sentiment Of Public Duty, It Is Difficult To Exaggerate The Salutary Influence It May Exercise Over A Nation.

There Is Moderation Even In Excess.

A Member Of Parliament To Disraeli: 'sir, You Will Either Die On The Gallows Or Of Some Unspeakable Disease.' That Depends, Sir,' Said Disraeli, 'whether I Embrace Your Policies Or Your Mistress.

I Must Follow The People. Am I Not Their Leader?

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